Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-29
CITY SEWERAGE.
Prompt Action to Save
Future Taxation.
FURTHER DELAY DANGEROUS.
Enlightened Movements on the
Question in Various Parts
of the Country.
FURTHER DELAY DANGEROUS

| The town OF San Luis Oblspo ap'
pears to be moving in the matter ol
city sewerage. A meeting of the
Board of Trade of that town was held
on Tuesday last, at which resolutions
were passed recommending that the
city should issue bonds for a sufficient
amount to construct system of sew
ers, and committee of ten prominent
citizens was appointed to urge hasty
action upon the Board of City Trustees.
This is a move in the right direction
and shows that the4eople of San Luis
Obispo are awake to their true inter-
ests of caring for the public health.
Self-preservation is recognized as the
first law of nature, and appears to be
realized in all places around Los An
geles.
San Diego has commenced to eXpend
$4O0, 900 in that little beautiful city for
the construction of sewerage system
for IL 800 people.
Pasadena is to expend 1892, 900 for
sewerage system for 1000 people.
Azusa commenced sewerage sys
tenn before house was erected.
San Bernardino and Santa Ana are
moving in an energetic manner in the
matter of sewering those towns. In
every direction there appears to be an
active movement going on for remov-
ing filth and preserving the health OF
the city.
NO TINE TO BE LOST
The right of way has been secured
for conduit from the south boundary
of the city to the Sausal Redondo
rancho for an outfall sewer, and the
proprietors of that rancho have Of
fered, as previously published in the
HERALD, to grant right of way
for eight miles across their
lands to the sea on condi-
tions highly advantageous to the
city. They have 5000 acres of fine
land and can likely control 1000 acres
more, which they propose to put into
a pool with the city, valuing their land
at 800 per acre on condition that the
city authorities give them the right tc
use the sewage on the land, ovel
which they will lay vitrified, or other
pipes equally as good, for the irriga-
tion and fertilization of the soil. This
laying of pipe would cost the proprie-
tors about $75 900.
After the sewage is placed on the
land in proper manner the land will
be sold for cultivation, and half of the
amount realized above the sum of 500
per acre will be paid into the treasury
of the city. When sewage is not
needed on the land it is to have unob-
structed conveyance to the sea through
the conduit over the same, thus rid.
ding the city OF all its poisonous gases
from the sewers. The descent to the
sea from the city boundary is about
200 feet on a most excellent grade
free from ravines or rocks.
This most liberal proposition will no
long be left open. The outlet is the
best that can be found, and the terms
are such that the city can make hal
a million dollars by the advance in the
value of the land. Since the PROPOSE
tion was originally made in the col.
umns of the HERALD the price of the
land has advanced materially, and is
now salable at a higher price than that
named in the proposition to the city.
If the city wants a sewerage system
that will cost nothing, the time for ac-
ton has arrived. The proposition
must be accepted or rejected in short
time. A special message from Mayor
Workman will probably be issued call
ing attention to the necessity of ex-
tending the sewerage system
to the sea, and that will
bring the matter directly before
the City Council and this proposition
or some other valuable plan will be
adopted. Immediate action is neces.
sary.
CAPITAL CHANGING BASE.
Another consideration is now forced
upon the merchants and house own
ers of the city that should have its
proper effect. Owing to the lack Of
proper sewerage to make the city de-
sirable as place of resort, capitalists
are removing their money from the
city and investing it in the shape OF
spacious and beautiful hotels in the
suburbs. thus depriving the city of a
large amount of taxable property and
taking the trade of travellers and tour
lists to surrounding towns.
This matter is serious considera-
ton for it amounts to hundreds OF
thousands of dollars annually. The
location Of twenty-one new hotels was
given in the HERALD a few days ago as
being built outside of the city, and
rivals to the city hotels and detractors
of trade from Los Angeles. Since
that time two others have been
planned outside the city; one of 200
rooms in Cahuenga and another of sc
rooms in South Pasadena.
To retain the trade here the city
must be made clean, beautiful and
attractive. This cannot be accom-.
plished except by sewers and pave
ments. The streets and the air must
be pure. Los Angeles should be what
it can be, the finest city in the world
and one of the largest. To insure
these things it is time to begin to
work and work earnestly. The
money market is easy, and it is a good
time to sell city bonds. The rise in
value of 5000 acres of land will pay fol
the bonds long before they would
become due while the health of the
/ oifv would ho ozroofIy hanaf;tad